Subgenus Scaptomyza (Scaptomyza) Hardy, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scaptomyza Hardy, J. 1850. Notes on remedies for the turnip-fly amongst the ancients, and on the turnip fly of New Holland, with notice of a new genus and species of Diptera. History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Edinburgh 2: 359-362 [early 1850; a note bound with a copy in the BMNH gives the date of publication of fascicle VII of this journal (p. 341–378) as 1850. Fascicles I–VI were published in 1849] [361] [as genus].

  Type species:

   Drosophila graminum Fallén, 1823 by subsequent designation, see Coquillett, D.W. 1910. The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(=No. 1719): 499-647 [603].
• Scaptomyzella Hendel, F. 1928. Über die minierenden europischen Scaptomyza-Arten und ihre Biologie (Diptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 76: 289-302 [1 May] [290] [incorrect original spelling as Scaptomyzetta].

  Type species:

   Drosophila flava Fallén, 1823 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brake, I. & Bächli, G. 2008. World Catalog of Insects. 9. Drosophilidae (Diptera). Stenstrup (Denmark) : Apollo Books Vol. 9 412 pp. [1-412]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania
• New Zealand

General References

Brake, I. & Bächli, G. 2008. World Catalog of Insects. 9. Drosophilidae (Diptera). Stenstrup (Denmark) : Apollo Books Vol. 9 412 pp. [1-412]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)